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Essentials of Greek and Roman Classic: a Guide to the Humanities

By: N/A

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Barron's: January 1949

Seller ID: 346391

ISBN: B001UXC7D4

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

By: Aeschylus

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: February 1984

Seller ID: 343177

ISBN: 0140443339

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In the Oresteia--the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity-- Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. Moving from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to civilized institution, it's spirit of struggle and regeneration is eternal.
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The Library of Greek Mythology (Oxford World's Classics)

By: Apollodorus,

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: February 1999

Seller ID: 347817

ISBN: 0192839241

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

A new translation of an important text for Greek mythology used as a source book by classicists from antiquity to Robert Graves, The Library of Greek Mythology is a complete summary of early Greek myth, telling the story of each of the great families of heroic mythology, and the various adventures associated with the main heroes and heroines, from Jason and Perseus to Heracles and Helen of Troy. Using the ancient system of detailed histories of the great families, it contains invaluable genealogical diagrams for maximum clarity.
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Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata (Meridian classics)

By: Aristophanes

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Plume: May 1994

Seller ID: 334721

ISBN: 0452007178

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war. The darker comedy of The Clouds satirizes Athenian philosophers, Socrates in particular, and reflects the uncertainties of a generation in which all traditional religious and ethical beliefs were being challenged. @PussyWhip What's something we can leverage against men? What's the one thing we're good for again? It's on the tip of my tongue. From "Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less"
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Cicero: Rhetorica ad Herennium (Loeb Classical Library No. 403) (English and Latin Edition)

By: Cicero

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Harvard University Press: January 1954

Seller ID: 343507

ISBN: 0674994442

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches, delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political, before jurors if judicial, 58 survive (a few of them incompletely). In the fourtee...
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Archaic and Classical Greece: A Selection of Ancient Sources in Translation

By: Crawford, Michael H., Whitehead, David

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: February 1983

Seller ID: 342013

ISBN: 0521296382

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The aim of this book is to collect in one comprehensive volume a representative selection of ancient sources in translation, with commentary, on the history, institutions, society and economy of the Greek world from c. 750 to 338 BC - that is, the period best known and most important for the evolution of the polis, a form of political community which combined the aspects of city and state in a physical and psychological unity unparalleled either before or since. For us, the inheritors of much that the Greeks created, there is an inherent interest in the way in which they organised their societ...
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Rex Warner's New Translation of Three Great Plays of Euripides: Complete Texts of 'Medea,' Hippolytus,' and 'Helen' (A Mentor Classic, MT241)

By: Euripides

Price: $1.95

Publisher: The New American Library: January 1958

Seller ID: 338401

ISBN: B000HIY77C

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)

By: Euripides

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: April 2003

Seller ID: 340524

ISBN: 0140449299

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Four plays by the Greek dramatist who started to interpret human behavior without reference to the wisdom of gods. @GoldenFarce Good, the gals stand outside my house all the time. The constant chanting is creepy, but all agree: Jason crossing the line When he gets home we'll talk. I'm sure we can work it out. But what's the best way to approach this? Any advice, anyone? #wackrelationships From "Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less"
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Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)

By: Euripides

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: August 1963

Seller ID: 341929

ISBN: 0140441298

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Euripides was a brilliant and powerful innovator within the traditional framework of Attic drama.The last of the three great Athenian dramatists, and during his lifetime perhaps the most controversial, Euripides was the first playwright to use the chorus as a commentator; the first to put contemporary language into the mouths of heroes; and the first to interpret human suffering without reference to the wisdom of gods. The four plays in this volume all show Euripides to have been a man defiant of established beliefs, and preoccupied with the dichotomy between instinctive and civilize...
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Greek Tragedies, Volume 1

By: Grene, David

Price: $4.95

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: February 1992

Seller ID: 342443

ISBN: 0226307905

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of "The Complete Greek Tragedies." Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of more than three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.
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Greek Tragedies, Volume 3

By: Grene, David

Price: $5.95

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: February 1992

Seller ID: 342444

ISBN: 0226307913

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Odyssey (Signet Classics)

By: Homer

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Signet Classics: August 1999

Seller ID: 344996

ISBN: 0451527364

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A story encompassing the entirety of human emotion, "The Odyssey" remains one of the greatest literary works in the history of the world. It is the story of Odysseus and his ten-year journey to return home to his family and kingdom. Having angered the god Poseidon along the way, he finds him-self cast adrift at sea facing dangers beyond measure and trials beyond understanding. Truly a staple of literature and an epic adventure.
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The Odyssey (Vintage classics)

By: Homer

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Vintage: June 1990

Seller ID: 344201

ISBN: 0679728139

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The Odyssey: Revised Prose Translation (Penguin Classics)

By: Homer

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: July 1992

Seller ID: 348368

ISBN: 0140445560

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The Odyssey of Homer (Classics Club Series)

By: Homer, Samuel Butler

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Walter J. Black: January 1944

Seller ID: 333354

ISBN: B00ZNZV466

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Horace, The Odes: New Translations by Contemporary Poets (Facing Pages)

By: Horace

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Princeton University Press: February 2005

Seller ID: 257770

ISBN: 0691119813

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

They have inspired poets and challenged translators through the centuries. The odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. Their subtlety of tone and brilliance of technique have often proved elusive, especially when--as has usually been the case--a single translator ventures to maneuver through Horace's infinite variety. Now for the first time, leading poets from America, England, and Ireland have collaborated to bring all 103 odes into English in a series of new translations that dazzle as poems while also illuminating the imagination of one of literary histor...
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Aristophanes Frogs (Focus Classical Library)

By: Jeffrey Henderson

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co.: April 2008

Seller ID: 225999

ISBN: 158510308X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This is an English translation of Aristophanes' popular comedy in which the god Dionysus seeks to bring the great dramatist Euripides from Hades, where he encounters another great Classical playwright, Aeschylus. Includes background material on the historical and cultural context of this work, suggestions for further reading, and notes. The Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture and the roots of contemporary thought.
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Metamorphoses (Oxford World's Classics)

By: Ovid

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: April 2009

Seller ID: 342140

ISBN: 0199537372

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Metamorphoses--the best-known poem by one of the wittiest poets of classical antiquity--takes as its theme change and transformation, as illustrated by Greco-Roman myth and legend. Melville's new translation reproduces the grace and fluency of Ovid's style, and its modern idiom offers a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text ...
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